mentally sweaty

[MaykingStrides]

I've been using homemade iontophoresis for a month now. I'm not 100% dry but getting there. The problem is my mind is slow to adjust. I still feel like my hands are sweating. Everyday I have a panic that they are sweating and I have to stop what I'm doing to touch them and look at them to see they are in fact still dry. I'm still nervous to shake hands or high five. I'm still avoiding such situations and constantly wiping my hands on my pants... So if my hands are dry but I still have all the same tendencies and insecurities and paranoia as before.. What's the point?
I'm not trying to say "oh poor me, my hands are dry". Believe me, this is a positive thing. After twenty years of severe palmer sweating, I can't even believe they are dry. It seems like a miracle. I just wish I could enjoy it more.
I think part of the problem is I'm scared they will start sweating again. Like this is only temporary so I can't get to comfortable to the idea of dry hands.
I just wonder if anyone else has experienced this and has some words of wisdom. I wish dryness for everyone that has suffered from HH, and I wish them the opportunity to enjoy it.

 

[oolceeoo]

I've been using homemade iontophoresis for a month now. I'm not 100% dry but getting there. The problem is my mind is slow to adjust. I still feel like my hands are sweating. Everyday I have a panic that they are sweating and I have to stop what I'm doing to touch them and look at them to see they are in fact still dry. I'm still nervous to shake hands or high five. I'm still avoiding such situations and constantly wiping my hands on my pants... So if my hands are dry but I still have all the same tendencies and insecurities and paranoia as before.. What's the point?
I'm not trying to say "oh poor me, my hands are dry". Believe me, this is a positive thing. After twenty years of severe palmer sweating, I can't even believe they are dry. It seems like a miracle. I just wish I could enjoy it more.
I think part of the problem is I'm scared they will start sweating again. Like this is only temporary so I can't get to comfortable to the idea of dry hands.
I just wonder if anyone else has experienced this and has some words of wisdom. I wish dryness for everyone that has suffered from HH, and I wish them the opportunity to enjoy it.

I know what you mean. You're so used to living your life with sweaty hands that you don't know how to behave when they're dry. You still even feel the "tingling" or sensation of about to sweat yet they're not. I used iontophresis a while ago and I achieved some dryness, but for some reason it didn't magically change my whole life. It wasn't like "Oh, now I'm dry and I'm magically transformed into this super confident, social butterfly who can do anything."

I think the permanent "fix" comes from acceptance of who you are and learning how to live with it. I think anxiety comes from using certain treatments because you always fear that it isn't permanent and the sweating will come back.

 

[Sprawling]

Ionto kept me close to 100% dry for a bunch of years. I always feared it wouldn't last. During the past year it's only kept me dry 50-80%. For some reason, the anxiety of sweating never quite leaves, it just goes dormant.